Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
A mod from World [email protected].
What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
I had my comment removed and received a one-day ban.
Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
Original post: Pope is in ‘critical’ condition after suffering ‘asthmatic respiratory crisis,’ Vatican says
Like many of us on Lemmy, I think the Catholic church is responsible for a lot of evil in the world, including the way they were/are directly involved in blocking access to contraception leading to the needless death of millions of Africans due to the AIDs epidemic, the endless cases of child sex abuse, along with the ongoing coverups, and honestly too many awful things to mention in detail here.
So I left a comment that said:
The Catholic church at this point has all the moral authority of a child sex cult.
Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.
Amend community rule 4 to remove the reference to religion. WTF is it doing there as a rule in a news community in the first place? Is LW being run as a theocracy now?
Rule 4: Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist,
anti-religious,or ableist will be removed. “Ironic” prejudice is just prejudiced.
The mod in question is also a religious weirdo (see below during a discussion about Luigi), so perhaps that is why they have the rule in place. But if that community not going to accept fair criticism of religion then it isn’t a serious news community imo.
I fully acknowledge it wasn’t a long ban and the rule was in place, so it was perhaps a BPR or YDI in that sense. But the rule shouldn’t be there in the first place. How on earth is it justified? And looking at the other votes and comments on that post, it’s clear that the the vast majority of folks hate the Catholics church as much as I do. So why is this mod running defence for the famously morally bankrupt Catholic church in a world news community?
PTB for sure, you are criticizing a religious institute that is not and will never be discriminatory, as it is not targeting people for their religion.
Honestly this is starting to get to apologia levels of it, where some admins might consider federating with that community to be a liability. Since you know, at this point they’re sticking up for child molesters. That’s pretty bad, and could be very iffy for some servers. Who knows, this might be the turning point where [email protected] and [email protected] end up getting global/admin blocked on different servers.
No way, when I was falsely banned from news it was a 3 day ban and I only found out days after it expired, an unjust ban is an unjust ban. Even if it was for 20 minutes, yes you can ban someone for 20 minutes, expiration is calculated by a fixed unix time stamp:
{"community_id":[commID],"person_id":[userID],"ban":true,"remove_data":true,"reason":"[Reason]","expires":1731916333}That’s not particularly important though, what matters is that it doesn’t matter the ban length, it matters if it’s unjust, and here it was unjust, without a doubt.